Just a quick note as we enter 2024 that submissions for the next two issues of +doc (expected July 2024 and January 2025) are now open. No restrictions around length, content, and so forth, just an ask that it hews to some idea of "longer", whatever that means to you.
To submit, just send an email to me at jcd748@mail.usask.ca, with the poems attached. Don't worry about a proper cover letter, just say hi (or not!).
I just mailed off the nominations package last night, so I'm very pleased to announce that this year's nominees are:
- Jake Byrne, "No. 21 The World" (+doc.4)
- Jérôme Melançon, "On Seeing Oneself With Others" (+doc.4)
- Frances Boyle, "Winter's Death" (+doc.5)
- Sarah Peecher, "Emerging From a Silver Foil Cocoon After the Conflagration" (+doc.5)
Congratulations to all the poets!
...When
we're born we carry our deaths, we wear
a shelter belt of unknowing.
- Frances Boyle, from "Winter's Death"
The epiphany is never &
forever
- Sarah Peecher, from "Emerging From a Silver Foil Cocoon After the Conflagration"
It might be mid-September, but it's not fall yet: arriving just before the end of summer, +doc.5 features new work from Frances Boyle and Sarah Peecher. Linked by fire, these poems challenge us to imagine what comes after: whether the self-made, or that which slips beyond the grasp.
Five issues so far; two and a half years! Grateful to those who have allowed me to publish their poems since 2021, and here's to many years to come.
To purchase a copy, PayPal me or send an Interac E-transfer to jcd748@mail.usask.ca (Canada: $4, US and International $6, payable in CAD) and include your name and mailing address. Thank you, and happy equinox!
The power smouldering under the declarative sentence.
You could have ten thousand lines but it is the first laid that determines the orientation of the rest.
- Jake Byrne, from "No. 21 The World"
What it is to choose an ending, without being doomed.
- Jérôme Melançon, from "On Seeing Onself with Others"
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| +doc.4 - The World |
The first issue of 2023, +doc.4 features poets Jake Byrne and Jérôme Melançon. Vulnerable, introspective, their work asks how we place ourselves in the world, and what that means.
Each issue comes with three cards from the miniature Rider Waite tarot, randomly selected; a three-card draw.
Because of the work putting this issue together, there are a very limited number of copies available. Once they're sold, that's it.
To purchase a copy, PayPal me
or E-transfer jcd748@mail.usask.ca (Canada: $4, US and International $6, payable
in CAD) and include your name and mailing address. There are a couple of copies without tarot cards (I'd printed a few extra covers, just in case), and if you would like one of these, shoot me an email, and I'll send it free of charge. Thank you, and happy reading!
So as it's the New Year (and happy 2023, by the way!), submissions for the next two issues of +doc (summer 2023, winter 2024) are now open. If you'd like to submit, you can send work as an attachment to jcd748@mail.usask.ca.
If you're uncertain about submitting, why not send something? I'm looking forward to reading your work!
I'm very sorry to hear that Robert Hogg has passed. Like many in the CanLit world, I only learned he had entered palliative care for a returning cancer via rob mclennan. I wrote Bob a short note, knowing that it might not reach him and that he'd likely get many such. We'd known each other less than a year; I didn't want to make demands on his time. I was delighted that he replied on what turned out to be the day before his death.
Robert was a contributor to +doc.3, and someone I knew previously only by his reputation, as a professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, and editor of the influential early little magazine TISH at UBC in the 1960s. He sent me a couple of poems back in January, having heard about my magazine via Grant Wilkins. I was delighted to be able to publish one of them, and to get to know him a little through our emails.
Cameron Anstee has a moving remembrance on his site. Pearl Pirie has one as well and I'm sure there will be others in the coming days. I'm glad I met Bob. I wish I'd known him longer.
One of the things I really enjoy about running a small press is being able to send prize nominations off. null pointer press is print-based (because I like print), so Best of the Net is out, but I get to nominate work for the Pushcart Prize and so I definitely do.
This year I'm pleased to announce I'm nominating:
- Notes on Feral Gods, by Grant Wilkins (+doc.2)
- BLOOMS, PAINS, STRATEGIES, by Amanda Earl (+doc.2)
- "John Charley - Stacking Hay - Successful Indian Farmer", by Robert Hogg (+doc.3)
- Hibernia Mon Amour, by ryan fitzpatrick (+doc.3)
